This is a panel exploring the way in which artists across disciplines incorporate the untrue and the unannounced into their practice. We are here to tell you about some lies, and maybe to tell you some lies. To reveal some secrets and allude to others. We will be discussing clandestine gigs and concealed venues, artists that don’t really exist and things that never actually happened. We will be asking what the value of such activity is, how it challenges both our expectations of art and the way in which we look at the world. We will be considering the transgressive potential of these strategies in contemporary art and imagining news ways in which to use them.
The panel will be made up of artist James Webb and Iannis Iannou, curator at New Art Gallery Walsall, and will be chaired by artist and curator Andy Field.